This modern system designed for light weight bearing construction has been tested over several decades and provides the same durability to a traditional 100 year slate roof.
Lightweight roof slates.
Nu lok in use around the world since the 1980s places the roofing slates edge to edge with no overlap on a grid supported by battens with special galvalume supports that channel water falling between the slates down the roof.
Nu lok roofing system for a lightweight walk able genuine slate roof.
Come with a 25 year guarantee and provide good thermal insulation sound absorption and are non corrosive and environmentally friendly.
Supaslate is a high quality plastic roof tile that has been designed to look like natural slate but at a fraction of the weight making it ideal for many lightweight roofing applications including tiled conservatory roofs garages garden buildings sheds and much more.
Tiles from lightweight tiles ltd.
Slate2 results in a 40 reduction in the overall weight of a similar traditional slate roof easily meeting the standard structural roof specification of less than six pounds per square foot.
Lightweight plastic roof tile.